I keep all my Starforce "protected" games stored in a lead clad stainless steel "time capsule" for future generations to experiment with. Infuriating after having been on the verge of rebuilding my system before I knew the real source of the problem.Įventually I found a complete list of SF infected games and safely removed all that I had. Starforce dev's started off by denying the problem existed, then after they had to admit it they slammed gamers by charging that only those running pirated copies of SF games had problems, so basically told everyone to off.
The whole episode was very distasteful - lot's of online acrimony and bad blood and counter accusations from Starforce about running pirated software etc. In my case the optical drives functioned okay, or at least better than the hard drives.
Checking Device Manager for the tell tale signature of SF became a regular part of my maintenance routine.Īround this time one of the PC game mags - possibly PC Gamer - ran an article on SF and described in detail how to completely remove SF. Knowing that it wasn't a hardware issue was a relief but since I didn't yet know how many games I still had installed has SF, over the coming month(s) I had to routinely perform the protocol until I eventually got rid of the last SF game. I instantly realized I had a few of the games under discussion installed so tried the recommended protocol of uninstalling the games and uninstalling SF - which is not unistalled by removing the games. I ran diagnostics on the drives, ram, cpu, and decided it must be a problem with the motherboard controller and began to source a new board.Ībout then I started to search for information on symptoms/diagnosis of hard drive issues and stumbled across a thread about Starforce DRM.
(Xpand Rally) to get away from the driver errors. If you have problems using a trainer in combination with Windows Vista, 7.
It would take a minute to copy a small text file between drives. 32 bit and 64 bit Vista -Flatout 1- No issues-Flatout 2- No issues-Xpand Rally Demo- Will not. Xpand Rally v1.1.0.0 RUSSIAN NoDVD/Fixed Files Xpand Rally v1.1 ENGLISH. First I just reset the drives to DMA in Device Manager but after a few days or a week they would gradually ratchet down mode by mode to PIO.
By this time it was clear something weird was going on and I had begun trying to trouble shoot the system. I have not played with these settings yet so I cannot comment on what a good setting for each one might be.Mirh: What happened was that my hard drives were gradually working slower and slower, eventually reaching PIO speed. If you look within the model.scr file you will see the 5 different views possible for each car. \techland\Xpand\data\cars\"car directory"\model.scr The location of these model.scr files is: In total there are 10 cars, so ten files would have to be editted. Each car has a model.scr so any changes would have to be repeated on each car model.scr.
The FOV settings are in a file called model.scr. This leaves you with a Vert- result, however. Just open videosettings.src with notepad in \Techland\Xpand Rally\Data, and change standard resolution with your favourite one. Originally posted by Boogie83e:1280x1024 (in game max setting) running on a DIY Build: Win10圆4/FX6300/8GB/1GB-HD6870 :-)Ĭan the ini/config/settings file be edited to 1920x1080?Įdit: Did a quick Google search and found this.